HOWARD
LEE MORGAN is Vice Chairman of idealab! the Pasadena , CA based creator
and operator of internet companies, where was a founding investor in
1996 and serves as President of idealab! New York. He received a Ph.D.
in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1968, and a B.S. in
physics from City College of the City University of New York in 1965.

Dr. Morgan
served as Professor of Decision Sciences at The Wharton School, and
Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at The Moore School of
the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 through 1985. He has been a
Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology and the
Harvard Business School. During his academic career he served as an
editor of Communications of the ACM, Management Science, Transactions
on Office Information Systems and Transactions on Database Systems.
His research on user interface technology, and on optimization of computer
networks led to his bringing the ARPAnet to Philadelphia in 1974. As
a result of this early participation in the internet, he advised many
corporate and government agencies on the uses of electronic and voice
mail, implementing it throughout the Wharton School in the mid 1970s.